T Nagar and Rock Fort in Trichy set for sea change

Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are still to nominate a city each under the smart city development programme.Chennai's T Nagar and Trichy's Rock Fort are set to undergo a sea change as Tamil Nadu gears up to implement the Smart City project.

Even though the state missed the December 15 deadline to submit its list because the administration was preoccupied with flood relief, the government shortlisted richy , Tirunelveli, Dindigul, Thanjavur, Tirupur, Salem, Vellore, Coimbatore, Madurai, Erode and Tuticorin apart from T Nagar in Chennai for the Union government's smart city initiative.

Trichy , which came second in Swachh Bharat ranking, and Coimbatore, which won an award for a transport project, are serious contenders.